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...LILL STUDIO...
...hotbed of Asian dread remains Japan, where Ichise presides over his assembly line of scares. In the next two years he plans to release at least four more Japanese ghost movies, including one each by Nakata and Shimizu. "The day after I announced the new movies, a Hollywood studio offered to buy the remake rights to all of them," he chuckles. "I turned them down?it wasn't time to sell quite yet." In horror, after all, timing is everything...
...just a few empty bars to fill and plenty of leisure time. But U2's less famous members are hardly dead weight. In fact, their job is to be live weight--or at least ballast. They are steady, difficult to impress and maddeningly unromantic. "If we're in the studio trying to build the rocket," says Bono, "Edge is under the hood with his slide rule, I'm trying to become fuel, Larry is pointing out the reasons it'll never fly, and Adam's asking, 'Do we really want to go there?' They're always reasonable and usually correct...
After 10 months of endless talking and recording-studio drudgery, U2 held another meeting and finally reached something approaching unanimity on the new album. "I do believe we have the hits now," says Clayton--and he's right. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the catchiest album U2 has ever made, though it is neither political--the titular bomb refers to Bono's tempestuous father, who died in 2001--nor, as Vertigo suggests, a garage rocker. Mostly it's perfectly rendered grandiose pop, enormous in sound and theme. Bono sings about salvation (Yahweh), love (A Man and a Woman...
...never divorced his wife Elaine--like him a painter and heavy drinker who slept around with abandon--he fathered a child by another woman, set up the occasional household with still others and carried on countless affairs. At one point he taught each of his girlfriends to ring his studio doorbell in a different way so he could tell which one was coming...